On May 18, 2:01 am, "Kurt TeKolste" <tekol... at fastmail.net> wrote:
> You might be interested in the online version of the Handbook of
> Mathematical functions from NIST. It is available athttp://dlmf.nist.gov/.
>
> You can download a formula to Mathematica by Importing in LaTeX or
> MathML from the URL provided with a formula. For example:
>
> A generating function for the Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind may
> be found athttp://dlmf.nist.gov/18.12, equation 7 and downloaded using
> any of the three following.
>
> LaTeX --
> Import["http://dlmf.nist.gov/18.12.E7.tex","NotebookObject&quot;]
> The LaTeX option brings up a notebook displaying the function --
> but it generally requires some editing to convert it into valid
> Mathematica input syntax.
>
> MathML --
> Import["http://dlmf.nist.gov/18.12.E7.pMML","MathML&quot;]
> I have not been able to do anything useful with the MathML input.
>
> If you only want a picture --
> Import["http://dlmf.nist.gov/18.12.E7.png&quot;]
>
> ekt
And the fragility spreads. It's a little depressing that two projects
with a similar subset of goals can't simply interoperate. And that
with, what, 14 yrs behind DLMF and > 20 behind Mathematica.
Nonetheless, Abramowitz and Stegun probably needed an update.
Which has nothing to do with my preference for the Wolfram Functions
site.
Vince Virgilio